MD / exposure check button

[markcooper]

Hi All I am a newbie to the Pentax User Group so I'll introduce myself first.   Started out plus or minus twenty years ago with  Ricoh KR5, great cheap ( inexpensive? )camera that it was, I swiftly wore out the shutter. Next came my beloved and since stolen Pentax MG. This was replaced with an ME Super which I used for a number of years. Then I was tempted by a MZ50, wow autofocus!! Then I found an absolutely mint Spotmatic SPII   Two weeks ago I found a second hand LX and am feeling like James Brown!! I picked up an LX body, 50 f1.7, 24 f2.8 and a 80 - 200 f4.5 SMC Pentax lenses, an AF280T flask with flash bracket and both the standard FA-1 viewfinder and a FB-1 / FC-1 finder. All of this for R2500.00. That is South African Rands!! Divide this by eight to equate to $ US. Anyone green yet?!?   To get to the crux of the matter, The handbook,( yes, I got one of those as well!) says that the MD/exposure check botton, in the center of the viewfinder release lever, should activate the light meter. Well, mine does not. Is this specific to certain bodies, as I have heard, or should all LX's work in this way or does this only work with a winder or motor drive attached which I have still to locate?   Many Thanks in advance to the learned members of this forum.   Mark Cooper